Original Transplants

Episode 24 of the Original Transplants podcast finds Satoyama Homestead stewards Sarah and Will reflecting back on 2016 and dreaming big for 2017. We talk about the bees breaking cluster on warm winter days, and feeding and sheltering bee colonies in the winter. We share our experience with one hen's hard molt and tips for nursing a chicken through a difficult molt during a cold snap. We discuss seasonal homestead chores/fun, including dormant pruning, sheet composting new beds, fiber arts, preserves, beeswax processing, tool maintenance, and saved seed germination trials. We then discuss news from Lancaster Farming about farmland valuation and conservation initiatives in light of Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and wrap up the podcast by looking ahead to the 2017 season.